News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Corpus Christi resident has entered a guilty plea to bank robbery, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - On Nov. 20, 2017, a federal grand jury charged two defendants for allegedly robbing two banks in two separate counties in West Tennessee. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal indictment charging ANTONIO CARLOS DE GODOY BUZANELI, 56, and JOSE MANUEL ORDOÑEZ, JR., 46, in a $150 million investment fraud scheme involving purported Brazilian factoring. JULIO ENRIQUE RIVERA, 61, a third defendant involved...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced that #SubCommTech will hold a hearing on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Latest Developments in Combating Online Sex Trafficking."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Suzanna Meliksetyan, an operator of multiple purported durable medical equipment (DME) companies pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud for her role in a scheme to defraud Healthfirst, a non-profit, New York-based health maintenance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Nebraska Man Sentenced to Prison for Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Herminio Sandoval, 63, of Caldwell, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Nicholas Rodimon, 31, of Colchester, Vermont, was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2017, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 114 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography. Chief U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered Rodimon to serve an eight (8) year term of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Kevin Oscar Naholi, age 40, a Kenyan citizen previously residing in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was convicted by a federal jury today, following a one day trial, on one count of possessing a firearm as an alien unlawfully in the United States and after having been previously convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Suraj Patel, 38, of Long Beach, Calif., was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for his role in a $3.5 million scheme involving distribution for Macy’s. As part of his sentence, Patel was ordered to pay approximately $925,000 in restitution to the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Amado Colon, age 21, of Albany, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Anacostia Park is one step closer to becoming a signature urban park that improves people’s lives and protects the quality and resiliency of the Anacostia River ecosystem.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A man who resided in California and Virginia was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Justin McBride, 29, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison for armed bank robbery. McBride pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Joseph, Mo., in-home health care nursing assistant has been charged in federal court with stealing bank account information from one of her clients to illegally transfer more than $180,000 out of her account.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Dr. Robert Gene Rand, a Reno physician who operated Rand Family Care, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter of a patient and unlawful distribution of oxycodone, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two local men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of selling methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Carlos Cantu, 39, and Steven Douglas Schad, 29, previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Fayette County resident of has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation with four months home detention on his conviction of theft of government property, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: An innovative computational toolkit developed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), in collaboration with a team from other national laboratories, has been recognized by R&D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace in the past year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - On Thursday, December 7, the National Park Service and the United States Navy will host the 76th Anniversary National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Commemoration Ceremony to honor and remember the 2,390 American casualties lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and on the island of Oahu, December 7, 1941.
